I'm a fungi, I'm a fungi, what fungi am I?

[Kveldssanger]

Hampstead is just a glorious outlier for fungal ecology, it seems! It helps that it has had continuity of landscape for many centuries, in some manner of the word. Such long-term existence of a generally 'green' has enabled for fungi to succeed and establish over many generations, and the massive presence of mature and veteran trees certainly helps.

 

Slightly off topic here, but is there a long-term plan at the Heath to ensure there are enough veteran trees of the future?

[David Humphries]

.......Slightly off topic here, but is there a long-term plan at the Heath to ensure there are enough veteran trees of the future?

 

Yes and no, we have an ongoing program of works around the landscape veterans, (oaks and wild service mainly) but no written management plan for planting replacements and pollarding existing younger trees. That work is more adhoc.

 

A challenge to sustainably manage the future of tree populations on a site where grassland and heathland management is the focus.

 

 

 

 

More to the point, what's the fungi on post 193 then

 

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Aye, back on point (but thanks for the reply).

 

My immediate reaction was P. squamosus, though I don't think you'd be that kind to give us such an easy one!

[David Humphries]

.....My immediate reaction was P. squamosus, though I don't think you'd be that kind to give us such an easy one!

 

 

I wouldn't be too sure about that...........but no, not squamosus.

 

 

Think easier

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Chicken, due to the insects?

[David Humphries]

Yep, bug and fly heaven so it is

 

 

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[David Humphries]

How about this one.......

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Hmm... I know P. dryadeus exudates liquid on the upper surface, though I haven't seen enough to know whether they do below, as well. I notice a few brown specks, which suggests perhaps a Ganoderma, though I wouldn't rule out Perenniporia either with this as I cannot actually see whether those brown specs are spores or just little insect mines or what have you.

[David Humphries]

Brown specks are not spore.

 

 

None of those you mention.

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Gonna have to get some sleep, first. Perhaps it'll come to me, in a dream...!